Briefly Noted
1. Sean T. Collins has a music meme I thought I might do, but it turns out that the Top 100 for 1978 was, as I recalled, a vast fucking wasteland. To think both This Year’s Model and Peter Gabriel’s second album came out the same year.
2. Anton Sherwood is getting spam that can only be called Borgesian. I blame open relays in Tlön.
Comment by aaaa —
August 28, 2005 @ 11:51 am
Top 100 lists are a vast fucking wasteland every year. It forces you to decide from the merely bad to the truly awful. For instance, Dust in the Wind doesn’t seem so bad stacked up against 95 losers in 1978.
Comment by Andromeda —
August 28, 2005 @ 1:03 pm
Are you familiar with Popstrology? (I’d give you the Amazon link but it complains when I try…)
Comment by bryan —
August 28, 2005 @ 1:32 pm
oh come on,
flashlight, peg, Miss you, and Disco Inferno are really quite listenable.
hmm, 1984 had some real crap but it was not a musical wasteland, at least in comparison to the two I’ve seen so far.
Comment by norbizness —
August 28, 2005 @ 2:05 pm
I got to #36 from my year (Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry) before I deemed a song I could even mildly tolerate. Thank God for Guns n’ Roses, or 1989 could have been lost. I think I had moved on to the Butthole Surfers and Camper van Beethoven by that time, anyway.
Comment by Jim Henley —
August 28, 2005 @ 5:25 pm
bryan, I think the early-mid 80s were something of a golden age for Top 40 - Culture Club, New Edition, Donna Summer, Eurythmics, Cyndi Lauper. You had some very good stuff mixed in among the Rick Springfield. Contrariwise, the late 70s was hell on singles-format radio and radio-friendly singles. I don’t remember “flashlight” at all. The others you list are fine.
Comment by Bryan —
August 29, 2005 @ 2:45 am
Flashlight: George Clinton-> Parliament
Trackback by Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness —
August 29, 2005 @ 12:00 pm
Lookin’ Great and Feelin’ Fine…
Dude, Lita. Yer Mom’s totally fuggly. … we’re the class of ‘89! Sorry, but I am genetically hard-wired to embrace and write about all musical nostalgia, even when it dates and debases me. This unique trick comes to us…
Comment by baroose —
August 29, 2005 @ 1:14 pm
What a difference a year makes. 1977 is saved by the release of the albums “Hotel California” (title track) and “Toys in the Attic” (Walk this Way). 1978 was screwed by the rise of Disco.
Comment by Camera Obscura —
August 29, 2005 @ 10:19 pm
That was fun. But I discovered that the year *before* my “graduation year” (IOW, the year I started my senior year) was a far better fit for what I think of when I think “high school music memories”.
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(”Ooooh, my little pretty one, pretty one…”)
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And strangely enough, also the year many of the wedding reception “must play” songs hit the charts.
Comment by Anton —
September 1, 2005 @ 7:17 pm
I’m a wee bit surprised at how many of the hits I remember from 1976. (But then I mostly stopped listening to pop radio in 1982.) …Hey, why is a Beatles song (”Got to get you into my life”) in that list?